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1967
Whose working lives fell in 1967. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in 1967, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Elizabeth Taylor9 decades - 2
Johnny Cash6 decades - 3
Jacques Chirac8 decades - 4
Umberto Eco7 decades - 5
Peter O'Toole6 decades - 6
Andrei Tarkovsky5 decades - 7
Omar Sharif6 decades - 8
Debbie Reynolds7 decades - 9
John Williams9 decades - 10
Ted Kennedy6 decades - 11
Jayne Mansfield7 decades - 12
Anthony Perkins7 decades - 13
Donald Rumsfeld6 decades - 14
François Truffaut7 decades - 15
Ellen Burstyn5 decades - 16
Little Richard5 decades - 17
Roy Scheider4 decades - 18
Miloš Forman0 decades - 19
Otis Redding5 decades - 20
Dian Fossey4 decades - 21
Piper Laurie4 decades - 22
Loretta Lynnnot measured- - 23
Brian Epstein4 decades - 24
Amrish Puri0 decades - 25
Petula Clark6 decades
How to read these rankings
- People sit in their own time. Everyone is placed in the century their working life belongs to, and never in one that came after their death.
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record, read across every language rather than one. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus. Those decades are closed, so each curve is measured once and kept.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, or a name belongs to more than one notable person, we would rather show nothing than guess.